In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
HERMANN HESSEPassion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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